Diversity-Related, Student-Led National Medical Organizations: Leadership Opportunities for Learners.

Introduction: In light of the lack of diversity in academic medicine leadership, diversity-related, student-led national medical organizations (NMOs) provide a space for solace and reprieve among common peers while providing an opportunity to develop leadership competencies in a supportive environment. Despite the impact NMOs have had on cultivating generations of leaders in medicine, trainees may not identify opportunities for leadership development that are transferable to future careers in academic medicine.

Methods: We designed and implemented a dynamic 60-minute workshop with an interactive PowerPoint presentation, author-owned video testimonials (from past student leaders of NMOs), two case presentations, and reflection exercises.

Parent decisional regret regarding neonatal circumcision in an American outpatient pediatric urology clinic.

Introduction/background: Requests for circumcision revision are common in our American pediatric urology clinic. As parents are the surrogate decision maker for their child, there are several influences that can impact a parent's decision for or against circumcision.

Objective: We sought to assess parents' regret regarding their child's circumcision status and to correlate regret to factors that might have affected the original decision.

Changing Faces: Factors Associated with the Intention to Pursue Plastic Surgery and Practice in Underserved Areas.

Unlabelled: Improving the number of plastic and reconstructive surgeons who provide care to patients in underserved communities is critical to achieving health equity. We aimed to identify factors associated with graduating medical students' intentions to pursue plastic surgery and practice in underserved areas.

Methods: De-identified data for US medical school graduates were obtained from the Association of American Medical Colleges for students who matriculated in academic years 2007-2008 and 2011-2012.

Association of Demographic Factors and Medical School Experiences With Students' Intention to Pursue a Surgical Specialty and Practice in Underserved Areas.

Importance: The surgical workforce shortage is a threat to promoting health equity in medically underserved areas. Although the Health Resources and Services Administration and the American College of Surgeons have called to increase the surgical pipeline for trainees to mitigate this shortage, the demographic factors associated with students' intention to practice in underserved areas is unknown.

Objective: To evaluate the association between students' demographics and medical school experiences with intention to pursue surgery and practice in underserved areas.